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Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows 11 users are at risk of a new unpatched vulnerability that was recently disclosed publicly. As we reported last week, the vulnerability - SeriousSAM - allows attackers with low-level permissions to access Windows system files to perform a Pass-the-Hash attack.
Microsoft has reminded customers that Microsoft 365 apps and services will drop support for the legacy Internet Explorer 11 web browser next month, on August 17, 2021. According to Microsoft, users experiencing issues when attempting to access Microsoft 365 apps or services after August 17 will not be offered support.
S&I Corporation has released "Atxpert AI Viewer", a new AI building security management system based on Microsoft Azure, TnM Tech's Ghost-I AI edge computing and Scenera's NICE PaaS, a managed Kubernetes service built on Microsoft Azure infrastructure. Combining these partners' technologies enables a highly scalable and easy to manage building safety and security management system.
Microsoft has released mitigations for the new PetitPotam NTLM relay attack that allows taking over a domain controller or other Windows servers. PetitPotam is a new method that can be used to conduct an NTLM relay attack discovered by French security researcher Gilles Lionel.
Microsoft has released mitigations for the new PetitPotam NTLM relay attack that allows taking over a domain controller or other Windows servers. PetitPotam is a new method that can be used to conduct an NTLM relay attack discovered by French security researcher Gilles Lionel.
With the release of Windows 10's March 2021 updates and subsequent updates, some users have been experiencing performance issues when playing games. These gaming issues include decreased frame rate, stuttering in certain games, and flickering textures.
During the Inspire event, Microsoft announced that it would ship commercial Windows 11 SKUs in dark mode by default to support remote work. Speaking at Inspire event, Melissa Grant, Director of Windows Enterprise Marketing, explained that dark mode would be the default standard for commercial Windows 11 because users are spending "Much more time staring at bright screens".
As part of the latest Windows 11 update, Microsoft is updating the hidden icons flyout on the lower right of the Taskbar to match the new visuals of Windows 11. Microsoft Teams Chat app, which is based on Microsoft Teams desktop client, is now rolling out to Windows 11 users.
After setting the "Days since a security cock-up" counter back to zero, Microsoft has published an official workaround for its Access Control Lists vulnerability. The solution? Use the icacls command to deal with the permissions set for the contents of system32config, which are at the root of the problem, and then wipe any Volume Shadow Copy Service shadow copies that were taken prior to the icacls fix.
WireGuard, a high performance and easily configured VPN protocol, is getting a native port from Linux to the Windows kernel, and the code has been published as experimental work in progress. A WireGuard implementation for Windows already exists and can be found here, based on what Jason A Donenfeld, the creator of WireGuard, called "a generic TUN driver we developed called Wintun" and a cross-platform Go codebase called wireguard-go.